Bruce Lesley is incensed at one dimension of the debate about birthright citizenship that he says is being completely overlooked. “It’s in the words: ‘birth’ right citizenship — this is about babies.”
Lesley is the president of First Focus on Children, a bipartisan advocacy group for children and families, which submitted an amicus brief for the case Trump v. Barbara to be argued Wednesday, April 1, before the Supreme Court.
During debate on the potential end to birthright citizenship in recent congressional hearings, Lesley heard about administrative challenges, historical context and political allegiance. “The word ‘child’ does not cross their lips,” he says of the lawmakers and witnesses.
That is a serious oversight, he argues. “This impacts every baby born in America,” he says.
“When you have fear and you stop going to the doctor, then in the future there are important consequences” of missing prenatal care, Bustamante says. “Your children are more likely to suffer, for example, low birth weight, and this will ultimately have lifetime consequences.”
This is the crux of it for me. All of this is to punish and be cruel to brown people. The same so-called Christian principle following fascists who rail on and on about abortion and babies are 100% on board be cruel to adults, which leads to the pain and death of babies.
Conservatives don’t care about babies, only about getting to be legally racist. The slavers never gave up, they’re just wearing elephant pins now.
“We’ll kill a thousand of our own kids before we let one brown/black/yellow/red kid have equal rights!”
The funny thing is that the Bible straight up has instructions for an abortion ritual.
No shit, if you have to argue over citizenship in the hospital when an infant needs a ton of medical support during and after birth, we’re just going to have more dead babies around since they won’t have insurance. Though I suppose that was the goal, only white babies get to leave the hospital alive and well.
Capitalism doesnt work if people dont fear being poor.
